Improvement in compositions for destroying insects



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JASPER M. MADDING, OF GRAND VIEW, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMPOSITIONS FOR DESTROYING INSECTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,124, dated October 16, 1877; application filed May 11, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JASPER M. MADDING, of Grand View, in the county of Spencer and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Composition, which is fully described in the following specification:

This invention relates to that class of compositions to destroy insects; and it consists in a composition formed by mixing the following ingredients in the proportion named.

To prepare the compound, take one gallon tobacco-juice, (strong,) one gallon lime-water, (strong,) half pound sulphur, half pound copperas, half poundlard or oil, one pound sodaash.

Process of preparation: Take tobacco stems JASPER M. MADDING.

Witnesses:

WM. E. KNIGHT, WM. H. FORSYTH. 

